Upcoming Talks
Invited Lecture, “The Aesthetics of Civic Engagement,” LOOK BETTER / Interdisciplinary Visual Research Symposium, University of Cincinnati (October 2011)
Past Talks
Keynote Lecture, “The Challenge of Designing Local Engagement for Networked Communities,” Community and Technologies 2011, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia (June 2011).
Keynote Lecture (with David Bogen), “Intimacy, Expertise, and the ‘Problem’ of Attention: Designs for Post-Industrial Education,” eTeaching Conference, Boston College (May 2011).
Invited Panelist, “Immersive Planning Engagement Strategies,” American Planning Association, Boston, MA (April 2011).
Keynote Lecture, “Engaging Community Online and Off, California Redevelopment Association, San Jose, CA (March 2011).
Invited Panelist, “Engaging Communities With Games and Social Media,” Digital Media and Learning Conference, Long Beach, CA (March 2011).
Invited Lecture, “Why Location Matters in a Networked World,” Trendy Topics T2, http://www.trendytopics.info/schedule.htm (February 2011).
Keynote Lecture, “Designing Attention & Learning in the Modern Classroom: Emerging Social Rituals and Their Influence on Classroom Learning” 2011 Academic Technology Institute, Lesley University (January 2011).
Invited Lecture, “She’s Got LEGs and She Knows How to Use Them: How Neighborhoods Can Build Local Engagement Games to Build Community and Plan for the Future” Comparitive Media Studies Communication Forum, MIT (November 2010).
Invited Lecture, “Mobile & Local Engagement Games — to Build Community and Plan for the Future,” University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (October 2010).
Invited Lecture, “Local Engagement Games,” Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, CA (October 2010).
Invited Lecture, “Democratic Participation Through Digital Games and Virtual Environments,” Central Coast Bioneers, San Luis Obispo, CA (October 2010).
Invited Lecture, “Attention and the Classroom,” Collaborative Learning Center, Yale University, New Haven, CT (October 2009)
Invited Panelist, “Technology for Participatory Planning and Civic Engagement.” Open Cities: New Media’s Role in Shaping Urban Policy.” Washington, DC (October 2009)
Invited Panelist, “The Country Mouse Meets the City Mouse Meets the Virtual Mouse and the Journalist Mouse” to honor the work of New Yorker critic Paul Goldberger. AEJMC, Boston, MA (August 2009).
Plenary Panelist, “Hub2: Augmenting Public Deliberation Through Immersive Gaming,” Communicative Cities: Integrating Technology and Place, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (June 2009).
Invited Panelist, “The Future of Attention, The Future of Everything, NERCOMP, Norwood, MA (May 2009).
Invited Panelist, “Hub2,” Stepping Into Virtual Worlds, Cambridge Science Festival, MIT Museum (May, 2009).
Invited Respondent, Mediated Spaces, Cambridge Talks, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University (April 2009).
Lecture, “Network Locality,” Media and Civic Engagement, University of Massachusetts, Boston (March 2009).
Lecture, “Redefining the Local: Local Culture in Networked Media,” Communication Symposium, DePaul University, Chicago, IL (February 2009)
Invited Panelist, “Augmented Deliberation and Urban Planning” Baltimore Design Group, Baltimore, MD (February 2009 via Second Life)
Lecture, “Network Locality,” Internet Studies Program, Brandeis University (November 2008).
Lecture, “Hub2,” Center for Future Civic Media, MIT (September 2008)
Lecture, “Bridging Civil Society and Government with New ICTs: Reports from the Field,” Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University (August 2008).
Workshop, “Virtual Worlds and Government,” Fusion Arts Program (funded by the US State Department), Rhode Island School of Design, (August 2008).
Lecture, “Hub2: Using Virtual Worlds to Foster Civic Engagement,” Civic Engagement Research Group, Tufts University (April 2008)
Lecture, “Hub2: Using Virtual Worlds to Foster Civic Engagement,” Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University (November 2007)
Lecture, “Social Media in Academia” NERCOMP Special Interest Group (May 2007)
Lecture, “The Digital Possessive: Private Spaces in Public Space” Upgrade! Boston, Art Interactive (March 2007).
Lecture, “Classroom 2.0: How Online Social Networks are Transforming Academic Life,” Hamilton College, Clinton NY (February 2007).
Invited Panelist, “Social Software in the Classroom: Happy Marriage or Clash of Cultures?” NERCOMP Special Interest Group: Social Software, Amherst, MA (November 2006).
Lecture, “Interface Design: Cities, Film and Digitality,” University of Southern California (February 2004).
Invited Panelist, “The Database City: Narrative, Interactivity and the Renewal of Hollywood Boulevard,” Spaces of Culture, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL (December 2003).